Digital Scavenger Hunt

This week we were broken up into groups and assigned a digital scavenger hunt. I really like the idea of using this in my classroom. Of course I would need to wait and see what things around the school my students could take pictures of. If there is a serious lack of objects that resemble concepts we are learning about then I would have to reconsider using it. I really enjoyed the process though it was a lot of fun running around trying to think of things that would fit the goals we were given. Overall there were no problems with our scavenger hunt. We would take pictures of things and then we would stumble upon something else that was a better representation of that goal so we would take a picture of that. I felt that the scavenger hunt process itself was a lot of fun and that it went well. The part that didn't go as well was when I tried to upload them to picasa.com and then to make the presentation. I stumbled a bit but I eventually figured it out. I did all this not knowing there were step by step instructions on our webpage. I know I would need to make a handout to give the students these instructions before hand so I didn't have to go around and help them all, but when working with computers and students this is to be expected.Once I uploaded the pictures to picasa I created a Google presentation for the scavenger hunt. I felt that was a lot easier than using picasa, I guess it has to do with the fact that Google docs just is so smooth compared to a lot of other resources on the web. I had no difficulties embedding both the picasa album and the Google presentation to my blog which you can see for yourself below this post. I hope you enjoy it I know I had a blast.